The web was not yet around, Tim Berners-Lee was working on it at full speed, when the very first e-mail was sent from Space on 28 August 1991. Of course, Earth was the “addressee” of the electronic message that was written on a Mac Portable by James Adamson and Shannon Lucid, two astronauts on the spacecraft Atlantis.

The message read, “Hello Earth! Greetings from the STS-43 Crew. This is the first AppleLink from space. Having a great time, wish you were here, […] Hasta la vista, baby,…we’ll be back!”

The message was sent to the Johnson Space Center in Houston (Texas), and AppleLink was an online service provided by Apple at the time. “Hasta la vista, baby,” became cultic having been said by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2.